HAIRY SCENES FOR TODAY THEMES
Okay, so the photo theme given on 1st June was ‘Today’, but for me that is 7th:
Today! This week’s theme is a bit different (but you like that, don’t you?) – it’s about TODAY. This day. The day you’re reading and reacting to this post. No rules or guidance on what to post other than the photo must be taken today! Don’t cheat, don’t go into your photo archives on your computer, don’t link to an old post.
This will mean a dash for me onto the front lawn for yet another of my pictures from there. Sorry, but it is handy!
Anyway, with this one I can give it a slightly new slant. Do you look at this picture with pleasure, or with horror and revulsion? A Garden Judge would display the latter. Here, in the foreground, we have, reading from left to right, Miralbilis jalapa (Four-o’-clocks – Invasive Plant Cat 1(b) – also climbing up the next plant), Dracaena hookeriana (Indigenous; no problem) Canna indica, (Indian shot – Cat 1) and Ricinus communis (Castor-oil plant – Cat 2).
*sad sigh* That means I have to go out and do jungle warfare. With the certainty of insurrection at home, too. The younger members of the family will wail (particularly in the case of Mirabilis jalapa), ‘But it is pretty!’
Which they are, but only in the late afternoon.
Also today, I have a word picture of our nursemaid uttering horrific cries and tearing at her clothing. Requests for information regarding her distress were responded to with even louder cries and wails, but no explanation. It turned out that a small and innocent-looking hairy caterpillar had gone down her front – the remains, after extraction, were not fit to be photographed. Apparently, though, those hairs cause really severe discomfort!
I simply haven’t had time to post lately, but hope to use some of the accumulation of pictures and stuff from the past week soon.
© June 2012 Colonialist (WordPress)
Hey Col. What a view? And just one thing, please keep your cold fronts at bay, we here on the high veld is feeling it and it is not nice *wink*
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Blame the Cape for the cold fronts – they have sent us a lulu of a one today. I haven’t been in shirtsleeves even at midday!
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I had to go to bed with a water bottle this morning!
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As you would know, no doubt, there is still a tendency to ignore indigenous flora in favour of ‘overseas’ stuff , and the price we pay is quite high.(not financially, either)
Give me a totally indigenous garden any day. No hassle and just as pretty, if not more so. Alas, one is also fighting the other members of fam.
Nice pond, by the way. The waves look very realistic. 😉
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I think there is a respectable middle course. Many of the exotics are a pleasure to have, if decently mixed with indigenous. Also, many of the plants people proudly display as ‘indigenous’ may be so to Africa, but often by no means in the area in which they are planted.
You won’t believe the complexity of the machinery that goes into generating those waves! 🙂
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Oh your poor nursemaid – what an unpleasant experience for her. That view is truly spectacular.
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We really thought she was having a siezure!
I enjoy the view immensely. I can see it from where I type now, and even from the throne room leading off our bedroom! 🙂
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what a stunning view. what I wouldn’t do for a view like that Today or any day! 🙂
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At the moment it is looking a bit gloomy while a cold front sneaks in on us.
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I do love the overgrown look though. And that view! To die for!
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Overgrown is OK. It is just that the right things must do the overgrowing!
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That, Col, is a world class view. I am drooling.
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It is, indeed, a pleasant spectacle to have constantly available!
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Nice pic Col.
*hugs*
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I admit I didn’t have to work hard for it!
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Great view, Col. I think that Tarzan would love your jungle too. 😉 What a pretty little flower that Mirabilis is, unlike the remains of your hapless nursemaid’s unwelcome visitor. ;( Yes, I had missed your posts!
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The jungle loses some of its charm when it constantly needs taming!
I personally think the invasive tendency of Mirabilis is exaggerated, like that of Wedelia..
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Ha Mr C this is so you
🙂
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‘Tis I, indeed! 🙂
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